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To: MrB
Here, let me rub your nose in it: “No, it’s not a sin to love somebody,” Warren said. “It might be a sin to have sex with them,” he added. “It might be.” “might be” means “possibly could not be”. Now, don’t poop on the carpet again.

I'm no fan of Rick Warren, but the way I read that statement, he isn't speaking to just homosexual acts. It isn't a sin to love somebody. A man who loves his wife is not sinning. It also isn't necessarily a sin to have sex with someone you love: a man who sleeps with his wife is not sinning. The "it might be" statement, to my understanding, acknowledges that there are situations in which having sex with someone you love is a sin--sex outside of marriage, for example, or homosexual acts, although Warren does seem to dodge the line of questioning a bit.

53 posted on 11/30/2012 12:46:09 PM PST by The Grammarian
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To: The Grammarian

Seriously, this is as bad as arguing with liberals who try to isolate down the quote or the behavior to the point where they exclude all context in order to deny what is plainly obvious about a person and their beliefs.


57 posted on 11/30/2012 12:51:20 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: The Grammarian
A man who loves his wife is not sinning.

The context of the question did not appear to be about heterosexual relationships. Warren was trying to play both ends against the middle. His response is a masterpiece of word parsing.

69 posted on 11/30/2012 1:02:29 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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